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Design Domination

Design Domination

Colleen Gratzer

Design Domination helps freelance designers gain confidence, clarity and a competitive edge in a crowded marketplace. Adjust your mindset, become more business savvy and sharpen your creative skills, so you get more respect and command higher rates. If you're a logo designer, print designer or web designer looking to make a successful living freelancing, you will benefit from Colleen's real-world expertise in branding, publication design and layout, website design and design business. You'll also hear from other design dominators in the industry. Design Domination is hosted by award-winning designer Colleen Gratzer, principal of Gratzer Graphics LLC and creator of Creative Boost. Colleen provides her insights based on almost 25 years of graphic design expertise and almost 20 years of having a successful creative business. Website: https://creative-boost.com Music: https://www.bensound.com
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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Design Domination episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Design Domination for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Design Domination episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

Design Domination - Protect Your Freelance Business From Catastrophe
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02/05/20 • 15 min

#56 Find out ways to protect your freelance business and income from catastrophe—disability, long-term illness, an emergency, disaster, theft, liability issues—and how to minimize their effects.

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Design Domination - 9 Tips for Creating Accessible Hyperlinks
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06/14/23 • 11 min

#153 Ensuring that hyperlinks are accessible for all website visitors increases the accessibility and usability of a website. There are functional, cognitive and visual factors to consider. Find out 9 tips for creating accessible hyperlinks on websites.

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Design Domination - Stop People Pleasing, Save Your Business
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06/28/23 • 14 min

#154 Providing good customer service doesn’t mean you have to be at the whim of every client request or that the client is always right. In fact, if you do that, your business will suffer. Find out why people pleasing is bad for your creative business.

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Design Domination - Big Clients versus Small Clients
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05/29/24 • 12 min

#177 A lot of designers think having big clients is the key to making more money in their creative business. But that is not the case, and there are many pros and cons to working with them. Find out the advantages and disadvantages to working with big clients versus small clients and which ones you should work with.

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Design Domination - Creative Brief: 45 Ways to Get Design Inspiration
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05/22/19 • 5 min

#35 Ever get stuck in a creative rut? No more! Here are 45 ways to get design inspiration whether it's for a logo, typographic, print or web design project.

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Design Domination - Crafting a Custom Package Solution
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05/08/19 • 20 min

#34 Guest Amy Celona talks about how she crafted a custom web design package, how it solves her audience’s problems and how she made it profitable. She also talks about how she gets little pushback with design changes and saves time on proposals.

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Design Domination - Logo Lessons With Ian Paget of Logo Geek
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04/22/20 • 52 min

#61 Ian Paget of Logo Geek joins me to talk about his logo design process, how to set yourself apart from other logo designers, how he presents his work, how to get less pushback from a client on your designs, books he recommends, the tools he uses and more.

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Design Domination - Overlooked Places Graphic Designers Can Find Clients
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02/19/20 • 7 min

#57 Find out several overlooked places graphic designers can find clients—online and offline—that can help you based on your industry and clientele. Are you overlooking any of them?

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Design Domination - Stop “Should-ing” All Over Yourself—Set Goals
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01/08/20 • 16 min

#54 We’re always told we should set goals to be successful. But do you avoid setting them because you don’t see the point or you’re afraid you won’t achieve them? Do you ever look back and think, “I should have done this or that”? Learn how to set goals.

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Design Domination - Graphic Design Contracts and Estimates
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09/26/18 • 29 min

#13 Do you have trouble pricing your design work as a freelancer? Do you suck up out-of-scope work that you should be charging for? Learn what to include in your graphic design contracts and estimates and figure out if your projects are profitable.

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How many episodes does Design Domination have?

Design Domination currently has 186 episodes available.

What topics does Design Domination cover?

The podcast is about Branding, Freelancing, Marketing, Design, Creative, Podcasts, Arts, Business and Freelancer.

What is the most popular episode on Design Domination?

The episode title 'What Your Reply to Prospects Says About You' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Design Domination?

The average episode length on Design Domination is 21 minutes.

How often are episodes of Design Domination released?

Episodes of Design Domination are typically released every 14 days.

When was the first episode of Design Domination?

The first episode of Design Domination was released on Apr 11, 2018.

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